2020 ILX Poetry Competition: VOTE HERE

Yep, thanks Aimless. Will have proper read.

(Why in the fuck did I use the verb 'plootered'?)

Ive quickly narrowed my preference down to three on no better nor worse a framework of judgement than them being the kind of think i like

no better nor worse a framework of judgement than them being the kind of think i like

well, of course. my taste for poetry runs in many directions, but not every direction.

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Right i read them all again, and i dont usually read things closely once tbh

As always, and as i always say, i think the writing and reading is of a very good standard, varied closer or further to my own taste but almost all of it striking or entertaining or holding wholly or in some part at least an idea or turn or run of phrase or sounding that i like a lot

jhm and treeship, as in previous years, are delivering the stuff that is chiming and jiving with me the most and this year i reckon im going to plump for one of treeships

(Why in the fuck did I use the verb 'plootered'?)

I looked it up. It's a great dialect word. Thanks for using it and teaching it to me.

i also enjoyed looking that up~

Still feels kinda clumsy but thank you both. Works with disembogued in a thematic sense, I guess.

So much good stuff here. I have no idea how I'm going to vote.

I often start with a phrase or an image in a poem - let it bleed from there. Two such phrases:

my memory will waste its sweetness always
on misallocation of my senses

I ran my tongue along my hard crowns
about an hour
before I decided
to spend the spring
running with dogs in the park.

That should have read two such phrases/images.

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Voted.

Also voted

As always, I hope for more than 11 total votes cast, which is the number of poets who posted poems. But, this is mainly a convocation of our peers and that's fine, too.

last chance

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✓

nice distribution of votes. you love to see it.

But always the saints were
elsewhere just then,
or I'd have noticed them standing about.

Voted Looking for Saints and this bit was the clincher

Thanks for putting together, Aimless!

We poets must have our fun, too.

Might starting planning for next years now, writing directly into the add a post field has proven not to be a vote winner